Pochette
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Dancing was an expected aristocratic accomplishment. Instruction was given at home by a visiting dance master, who played a small fiddle to provide music for the lessons. The compact, slender shape of these instruments made them easy to transport and gave them the name pochette, which suggests that they were carried in one's coat pocket.
Description: Oval body with rounded back. Two straight sound-holes. Brown varnish. Flat finger-board. The peg-box terminating in a scroll.
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